1/ So Zhang Yiming no longer wants to be CEO of ByteDance Global. What do we know about him? Sure, he's super low key. But he's actually really open when it comes to talking about learning. So here are the books he says that have changed his life, they may surprise you:
2/ The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck, MD. "A psychiatrist suggests ways in which confronting and resolving problems, a painful process most people try to avoid, can lead to greater self-understanding and spiritual growth." 
3/ A Sense of Urgency, John Kotter.
The book is about change management, but the concept that Zhang Yiming took away from it that he talks about all the time is delayed gratification. Not just at the individual but also at the corporate level.
The book is about change management, but the concept that Zhang Yiming took away from it that he talks about all the time is delayed gratification. Not just at the individual but also at the corporate level.
4/ "Living Law" by Kazuo Inamori, Japanese founder of Kyocera and KDDI. I don't actually know which English book corresponds to the Chinese translations 活法, but Buddhism-inspired, Inamori is very popular in China and is full of wisdom about how to live and do biz w integrity.
5/ Basic Biology. The textbook. Yiming has said this is one of his favorite books. He actually wanted to major in biology in college but didn't get a high enough score & so had to settle for microelectronics.
6/ Besides these, he reads a lot of business, tech, psychology and philosophy books. So common classics like 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. You can find his Douban reading list here & see what he rated 5 stars (last updated 2017):
book.douban.com/people/onebird…
book.douban.com/people/onebird…
7/ He's read a lot on psychology. You can actually see the influences of these books on ByteDance and in his thinking. His ByteDance 9th anniversary speech given in March 2021, for example, drew quite a bit on Inamori's philosophies.
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